Susan's Christmas Shop Newsletter
Spring 2025
March 31st, 2025
Dear Customers and Friends of Susan's Christmas Shop,
Spring is here and trees are in blossom all over Santa Fe. There is flowing water in the Santa Fe River, which is unusual after a dry winter. The weather is lovely.
Santa Fe's mutilated historic obelisk is unchanged, but the brown box hiding it is gone. Now the west side, which mentions The Battle of Glorieta Pass, is visible. That three-day battle in March 1862, has been called "The Gettysburg of the West" because it ended the Confederacy's hopes of reaching California and Colorado. Five years later, the Soldiers Monument was built to remember Union soldiers who died in that battle. Local veteran's groups organized a commemoration of the important battle, the first since the brown box disappeared. "We're slowly getting our plaza back", said a local Santa Fean.
Easter is coming soon, April 20th. All the pueblos dance at Easter and some dance for several days. It is usually a Corn Dance. On this Easter Sunday, I will probably drive to Santa Ana Pueblo for the Easter Mass, as I have done for the last few years, just to be inside that beautiful, restored, colonial adobe church for an hour. It is locked most of the time. My good friend, Carlton Gallegos, will play his snare drum as the congregation leaves the church. Carlton makes wheat straw applique crosses for my shop in addition to being a traditional pueblo farmer raising corn and alfalfa.
In Germany, my daughter and I ordered German papier mâché egg boxes you can fill with surprises and use Easter after Easter. They come in a variety of sizes and prices.
Inside the egg-shaped boxes, you can put little toys.
Easter is a favorite season for egg collectors. We just received several boxes of genuine pysanky from our friends in Ukraine. The chicken eggs are $25 each and the goose eggs are $60. Each egg is hours of skilled work. It is a very difficult job to make a pysanka, but if you want to try it yourself, we have kits and dyes and tools. You supply the eggs and the time.
We also have decorated eggs from Slovakia and Austria.
German pewter bunny figures can add seasonal delight to your home decorations.
The Bunny reading is $130. The Bunny riding her bike is $135. They are painted on both sides and come with boxes to store them between Easter display.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? We have felted chickens with feather tails for $18 or $30 for a pair.
Enjoy the beautiful, welcome, and hopeful signs of Spring, wherever you are in this wide world. These blossoms are on a tree just west of my shop.
If you can come to Santa Fe, please stop by my shop to see all the nice Easter items. Many will disappear after April 20th. We now have a new email address too: info@susanschristmasshop.com
Please feel free to reach out to us anytime! We love to here from you.
Your friend in Santa Fe,
Sussan Topp Weber
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